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re: earth energy balance
7 jun 2000
george brown wrote:
>> >...every watt of solar energy we remove from natural use
>> >also impacts the environment...
>> would that we understood the difference between power and energy!
note the hortatory subjunctive tense.
> are you refering to my less than perfect match of units in the use
>of ".... every watt of solar energy we remove ...."?
i was more concerned about a possible gross misunderstanding behind it.
you might "remove a watt of solar power from natural use" (averaged over
a year) by orbiting a 1" mirror above the earth to reflect the sun back
into space, or "remove a watt-hour of solar energy" by doing that for
an hour, but how could you "remove a watt of solar energy"?
speaking of misunderstandings, has anyone figured out how to commit
bottomry yet? ("fred lends george $100 for the use of tom's boat...")
nick
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